Gillastraea delicata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GillastraeaPBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 26 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Gillastraea delicata on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
3 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Gillastraea delicata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gillastraea delicata and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Gillastraea delicata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
41 taxa- Retiophyllia clathrata3 sites
- Stylophyllopsis2 sites
- Aculeachaetetes aculeatus1 site
- Aksopora1 site
- Astraeomorpha confusa1 site
- Astraeomorpha crassisepta1 site
- Astraeomorpha minor1 site
- Astraeomorpha reimani1 site
- Bauneia1 site
- Cassianella1 site
- Chaetetidae1 site
- Chevalieria1 site
- Chlamys1 site
- Chondrocoenia paradoxa1 site
- Chondrocoenia schafhaeutli1 site
- Coryphyllia1 site
- Crassistella juvavica1 site
- Cuifastraea1 site
- Cuifastraea granulata1 site
- Cuifia columnaris1 site
- Distichophyllia1 site
- Distichophyllia gosaviensis1 site
- Indopecten1 site
- Indopecten glaber1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Gillastraea delicata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 referencesEach of the 3 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Gillastraea delicata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Gillastraea delicata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gillastraea delicata was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itGillastraea through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Melnikova 1983